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"The bottom line is that the US economy continues to be supported by a growing set of tailwinds."
Once upon a time, “Severance” star Adam Scott auditioned for the beloved sitcom “The Office.” Years later, he’s reliving the memories of that failed audition after his daughter’s acting teacher had the class compare Scott’s audition tape to John Krasinski’s successful tape. “He put it to the class like, ‘Okay. Let’s discuss why he got the job, […]
The main challenge is that targeting the remaining options risk blowback on the US economy.
To describe the uncontrolled adoption of artificial intelligence (AI) as a “mixed blessing” is a grotesque understatement. It is better termed a miscalculated risk that reflects the world’s present sad and potentially tragic lack of responsible leadership, in Western nations especially. On the one hand, we are assured AI will raise productivity and economic growth. It will be a particular blessing for developing countries, such as those in Asia, enabling them to leapfrog the centuries it took...
A new research paper frames AI adoption as a "tragedy of the cognitive commons." Every company that cuts entry-level jobs benefits individually, but the collective expertise of entire professions erodes. The consequences may not become visible until 2030 to 2045, when today's missing junior talent should have become tomorrow's experienced workforce. The article The "tragedy of the cognitive commons" explains how rational AI adoption could destroy entire professions' expertise appeared first on T
Publication date: November 2026 Source: Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 232 Author(s): Thomaz Henrique Viaro Bridi, Mayara Neves Pohlmann, Cecília Maria Villas Boas de Almeida, Rodrigo Franco Gonçalves
I recently built a bot to help me book popular gym classes. This was not a grand research project. It was a practical little automation. The classes fill up fast, I got tired of playing refresh roulette, and I figured an agent running on O ... (https://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/1642#7717)
Addressing a private meeting of Labour’s ministerial advisers this week, Prime Minister Andy Burnham said he’d moved on from believing in the “if you’re explaining, you’re losing” maxim popularized by ...
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